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The Cajun Prairie

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher : M.F. Vidrine
ISBN 13 : 9780615368139
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by M.F. Vidrine. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cajun Prairie, a 2.5 million acre wilderness in 1600, was occupied by Native Americans and the native prairie plants and animals. By 1800, the tallgrass prairie in September obscured the view across the landscape making it extremely easy to get lost, and by December the mud was so deep that a wagon was quickly buried to the axle, but winter fires brought forth the most luxuriant growth of grasses and wildflowers from early spring to late summer. 'The most beautiful region in Louisiana,' 'the garden of Louisiana' and 'one of the most agreeable views in nature' were descriptions of early travelers like C.C. Robin, William Darby and Col. Samuel Lockett. Today, this prairie is listed as 'critically imperiled (S1)' by the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program. Literally less than 100 acres remain in narrow strips and small pieces dotting the landscape. The natural history of this prairie is described for the first time as result of the work of a group of devoted prairie ecologists and enthusiasts. This is their story and a view of the future as restoration ecologists attempt to recreate the Cajun Prairie as a sustainable landscape, a remarkable biodiversity garden and a tribute to our natural heritage"--Cover, p. 4.

The Cajun Prairie

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368365072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie is 99.9 percent destroyed. However, the authors discovered remnants of this prairie habitat along railroad rights-of-ways in the 1980s and photographed these remnants during their years of investigation. More than 200 of these images are arranged into monthly displays in an effort to provide views of the prairie as it may have appeared in the 1800s. The remnants were each distinctive in their biodiversity, and each provided a splash of color from the blooming plants at different times of the year. These remnants are now decimated; thus these images are basically all that remains. An essay on the discovery of these remnants and the discoveries made while studying these remnants introduces and closes the monthly presentation of images.

The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780464891482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana is a 30 year old project carried out by scientists and volunteers. This book uses photographs to tell the story of this project and to celebrate the volunteers who made the project possible. The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society maintains the site, educates interested groups and provides tours of the site. The book is in essence the scrapbook of the author--an evolutionary ecologist who played a role in the project origination. This book also celebrates the City of Eunice and its university, Louisiana State University Eunice.

A Cajun Prairie Restoration Journal, 1988-1995

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher : Gail Q Vidrine Collectables
ISBN 13 : 9780963730411
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book A Cajun Prairie Restoration Journal, 1988-1995 written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by Gail Q Vidrine Collectables. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the southwestern Louisiana prairie ecosystem and provides an account of the activities on the Cajun Prairie Restoration Site in Eunice, Louisiana, since its origin in the winter of 1988 through the sixth year (1994) of restoration.

The Cajun Prairie Gardens

Author : M. F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368049996
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The Cajun Prairie Gardens written by M. F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie Gardens demonstrate wildscaping with native prairie plants in southwestern Louisiana. The gardens are family-owned and operated. The book provides an introduction to the authors' family and their gardens. Chapters include a description of some of the gardens: Louisiana irises, mints, peas, milkweeds, sunflowers, grasses, biodiversity and pollinators. A chapter celebrating many of the visitors is followed by a chapter on progressive landscaping and residential planning.

Cajun Prairies

Author : Malcolm F. Vidrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781714376155
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Prairies written by Malcolm F. Vidrine and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Prairies: Then and Now provides a brief introduction to the natural areas in southwestern Louisiana. These prairies, like so much natural habitat, is lost. Efforts to appreciate the natural history of the region and efforts to recreate natural areas by restoration activities are central in this story. This little book provides a final clarion call for the Cajun Prairies, a habitat that is filled with history and potential.

Cajun Prairie (Louisiana) - Wink Travel Guide

Author : Wink Travel Wink Travel Guide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781691846139
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Prairie (Louisiana) - Wink Travel Guide written by Wink Travel Wink Travel Guide and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun Prairie is the name of the inland area between the marshes to the southwest around Lake Charles, the pine forests of central Louisiana, and the bayous and swamps to the southeast. It covers the majority of three parishes in Acadiana, a region covering the majority of southern Louisiana. This area is unique in South Louisiana and known for its windswept prairies, crawfish farms, and rice paddies. Renowned for its Cajun and Zydeco music, this area also is home to the Cajun Music Hall of Fame and many musicians of this unique genre. Wink Travel Guides introduce you to the best world travel destinations, in a clear and concise way, illustrated by photos.

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

Author : Viola Fontenot
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496817109
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years written by Viola Fontenot and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.

Cajun Country Guide

Author : Macon Fry
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455601752
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Country Guide written by Macon Fry and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's just nowhere else but South Louisiana to find real knee-slapping, crowd-hooting Zydeco music. Even the big-city chefs can't cook up a Cajun meal the way they do at the roadside restaurants deep in the bayous of Acadiana. Likewise, no other guide matches the amount of in-depth information presented in Cajun Country Guide. It's a study of Cajuns that tells visitors how to find the sights, sounds, and flavors of one of America's most culturally unique regions. Take a vacation to a part of our own country that, in some places, didn't even speak English until nearly fifty years ago. While modern technology is weeding out some of the one-of-a-kind qualities of this subculture, not all of them are gone, or even hard to find, if you know how to hunt for them. And there are no better hunters than authors Macon Fry and Julie Posner. With the handy maps, reviews, and recommendations packed into the Cajun Country Guide, a trip to the bayous won't leave one feeling like a visitor, but more like a native who has come back home.

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras

Author : Carolyn E. Ware
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056450
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Women and Mardi Gras written by Carolyn E. Ware and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women’s contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras “run.” Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded women. Male organizers explain that this rule protects not only the tradition’s integrity but also women themselves from the event’s rowdy, often drunken, play. Throughout the past twentieth century, and especially in the past fifty years, women in some prairie communities have insisted on taking more active and public roles in the festivities. Carolyn E. Ware traces the history of women’s participation as it has expanded from supportive roles as cooks and costume makers to increasingly public performances as Mardi Gras clowns and (in at least one community) capitaines. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork interviews and observation in Mardi Gras communities, Ware focuses on the festive actions in Tee Mamou and Basile to reveal how women are reshaping the celebration as creative artists and innovative performers.

Exploring Cajun Country

Author : Cheré Dastugue Coen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841507
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Cajun Country written by Cheré Dastugue Coen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's famous Cajun Country is a place where today's travelers can still experience the rich heritage and traditions that began in the eighteenth century. From foodways and folktales to music and festivals, Acadiana offers something you can't get anywhere else. Journey through this historic and unique part of the state with travel writer and historian Cher Coen as your guide Experience Cajun Country through its exceptional cuisine, area events, and historic attractions.

Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory

Author : Mathilde Köstler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311077271X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory written by Mathilde Köstler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.

Belair Cove

Author : Dianne Dempsey-Legnon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781105058578
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Belair Cove written by Dianne Dempsey-Legnon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, Belair Cove was a world unto itself, a small Acadian-French (Cajun) village outside of Ville Platte, Louisiana. It consisted of a few small farms on either side of a winding dirt road that snaked across a wide prairie. Belair Cove was a place where families and friends relied upon each other for survival; a place where everyone knew everything there was to know about one another, yet there were untold secrets. Belair Cove shares such a secret. It is the story of three young Cajuns whose lives were firmly rooted in the land, culture, and people of their village. It is the story of young lovers torn apart by poverty and war. Angelique had to watch as her true love, Jean Marc, went off to fight in the Great War while she stayed home to rage a war of her own in a loveless marriage with a man who slowly spiraled out of control into drunkenness and debauchery. The people of the Cove watched, waited, and eventually everyone had to choose a side.

Louisiana Cowboys

Author : Jones, Bill
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455607747
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Cowboys written by Jones, Bill and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text explore the history of cowboys in Louisiana, discussing cattle ranching, trail drives, the Acadians, and the landscape; and including interviews and anecdotes.

Cajun Pig: Boucheries, Cochon de Laits and Boudin

Author : Dixie Poché
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144460
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Pig: Boucheries, Cochon de Laits and Boudin written by Dixie Poché and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Southwest Louisiana is famous for time-honored gatherings that celebrate its French Acadian heritage. And the culinary star of these gatherings? That's generally the pig. Whether it's a boucherie, the Cochon de Lait in Mansura or Chef John Folse's Fete des Bouchers, where an army of chefs steps back three hundred years to demonstrate how to make blood boudin and smoked sausage, ever-resourceful Cajuns use virtually every part of the pig in various savory delights. The author traverses Cajun country to dive in to the recipes and stories behind regional specialties such as boudin, cracklings, gumbo and hogs head cheese. From the Smoked Meats Festival in Ville Platte to Thibodaux's Bourgeois Meat Market, where miles of boudin have been produced since 1891, this is a mouthwatering dive into Cajun devotion to the pig."--Back cover.

The Acadian Prairie - Theodule

Author : Christopher J. Fontenot
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480972711
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Acadian Prairie - Theodule written by Christopher J. Fontenot and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acadian Prairie by Christopher J. Fontenot Tugged and shoved by the winds of war, the petit habitants of the Acadian prairie arrived from many directions. Acadians arrived from Nova Scotia. Other families migrated to the prairie after the French and Indian War. All of the settlers sought land and isolation that shielded them from the intemperate affairs of European kings. The Acadian prairie provided both. Farmers and ranchers, Theodule Dupré, Emile Ortego, the Landrys, Frugés, and the traiteuse Olivia wanted only to be left in peace, but peace is not given freely. Death was always near, whether it was vigilantes and cattle thieves, storms and epidemics, or Jayhawkers operating in the chaos of the Civil War, they had to fight for what was theirs – sometimes even fight their own families. Connected by family and circumstance, theirs was a saga that would follow their families through generations.

Chasing the Gator

Author : Isaac Toups
Publisher : Voracious
ISBN 13 : 0316465763
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Gator written by Isaac Toups and published by Voracious. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A badass modern Cajun cookbook from Top Chef fan favorite Isaac Toups and acclaimed journalist Jennifer V. Cole, featuring 100 full-flavor stories and recipes. Things get a little salty down in the bayou... Cajun country is the last bastion of true American regional cooking, and no one knows it better than Isaac Toups. Now the chef of the acclaimed Toups' Meatery and Toups South in New Orleans, he grew up deep in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana, where his ancestors settled 300 years ago. There, hunting and fishing trips provide the ingredients for communal gatherings, and these shrimp and crawfish boils, whole-hog boucheries, fish frys, and backyard cookouts -- form the backbone of this book. Taking readers from the backcountry to the bayou, Toups shows how to make: A damn fine gumbo, boudin, dirty rice, crabcakes, and cochon de lait His signature double-cut pork chop and the Toups Burger And more authentic Cajun specialties like Hopper Stew and Louisiana Ditch Chicken. Along the way, he tells you how to engineer an on-the-fly barbecue pit, stir up a dark roux in only 15 minutes, and apply Cajun ingenuity to just about everything. Full of salty stories, a few tall tales, and more than 100 recipes that double down on flavor, Chasing the Gator shows how -- and what it means -- to cook Cajun food today.